Saturday, July 30, 2016

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening
remarks and answers to media questions at a news conference following a number
of bilateral meetings and multilateral events on the sidelines

of ASEAN, EAS and ARF, Vientiane, July 26,
2016

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These days, the capital
of Laos, Vientiane, is hosting events related to ASEAN’s partnership with
foreign countries, including Russia, the US, Japan, Korea, China, and a number
of European countries. These events concern primarily issues of security in this
region, integration processes in Asia and the Pacific, and practical
cooperation in many different areas, including the fight against terrorism and
security on the seas and on the borders of the region’s states.

And an orchestrated war with Russia has all of us marked for extinction

Paul Craig Roberts

The Democratic Party that once was concerned with workers’ rights, the elderly, civil rights, and the constitutional protections of America liberty no longer exists. As the just completed Democratic presidential primaries and the Democratic presidential convention have clearly demonstrated, the United States now has two Republican parties in service to the One Percent.

The organized Democrats–the Democratic National Committee–have shown themselves to be even more venal and corrupt than the Republicans. Leaked emails document that the Democratic National Committee conspired with the Hillary campaign in order to steal the nomination from Bernie Sanders. It is clear that Sanders was the choice of Democratic Party voters for president, but the nomination was stolen from him by vote fraud and dirty tricks.

The DNC and the media whores have tried to discredit the incriminating emails by alleging that the leaked emails resulted from a plot by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in behalf of “Putin’s American agent,” Donald Trump. “A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin,” as the presstitute scum put it.

This diversionary tactic has not worked. Not even Americans are stupid enough to fall for it.

Consequently, the corrupt “leader” of the DNC had to resign and was unable to deliver her speech at the nominating convention from fear of being booed off the stage.

Sanders’ supporters have abandoned Hillary and the fake “Democratic Party.” Probably most of them will vote for the Green Party candidate.

The organized Republicans–the Republican National Committee–and the zionist neoconservatives wanted to block Donald Trump from the nomination just as the DNC blocked Sanders, but could not. The neoconservatives are organizing for Hillary as she is their warmonger and Trump says he is not, but as the Presidential contest is really a contest between the two Republican parties about which gets to be the whore for the One Percent, the RNC, impressed with Hillary’s lack of voter support, seems to be sticking with Trump. Better to be a well-paid whore than to be out in the cold.

In the coming presidential election, the outcome will probably be determined by whether the powerful oligarchic interest groups decide whether Trump is an actual threat or whether they can cosy up to him and rope him in by appointing his government.

Trump’s disability is that no matter how able an individual is, that person cannot simultaneously make themselves a multi-billionaire and be knowledgeable of economic and foreign policy issues. The bald fact is that Trump, if he becomes president, does not know whom to appoint in order to have the support from his government to effect the changes for which his supporters hope he stands.

When a person becomes President, that person doesn’t suddenly become an encyclopedia with full knowledge.The President is dependent on the information flows from his government. If those information flows support the interests of Wall Street, the corrupt “banks too big to fail,” the military-security complex, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and the extractive industries (energy, mining, timber), the President’s decisions will support these material interests.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice, because he is opposed to the offshoring of American jobs–a corporate practice that has enriched the One Percent at the expense of the American middle class.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice, because he opposes the fabricated, gratuitous conflict with Russia. Even Americans understand that taking war to a major nuclear power will not end well.

Donald Trump is the American people’s choice because he realizes that NATO–an organization whose purpose disappeared 25 years ago when the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of the coup against Gorbachev by extreme elements of the Soviet Communist Party–now serves as a vehicle and cover for Washington’s aggressions, which are war crimes under the international statutes that Washington created. Washington’s wars benefit some of the One Percent at the expense of both the 99 Percent and millions of innocent peoples in many countries.

What will happen now is that the presstitutes will demonize Donald Trump even more than they have demonized Vladimir Putin. The scum presstitutes will do everything that they can possibly do to make a vote for Trump into an act of treason against America.

Now that the presstitutes have learned that they can tell the most blatant lies–Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Iranian nukes, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russian invasions–without being held accountable, they know that they can lie about Trump.

And they will. To the hilt.

But the presstitutes have lost credibility. A person has to be an imbecile to believe a word that they say.

“Progressives” will wander off the track. They will be turned off by Trump’s stand on immigration, which is where the American people stand. “Progressives” will be worried about whether the ‘fascist” Trump will persecute transgender and homosexual people or revoke the right of women to abort the unborn. To “progressives” this will seem all important as Washington and its NATO vassals hurl the world into nuclear war.

Neither can any intelligence be expected from the defunct American left-wing. The American left-wing supports the official story of 9/11, the excuse for the last 15 years of illegal wars and the American Police State. To find the American left-wing totally allied with the official explanation of what is in reality a false flag event, committed in order that the neoconservatives would have their new Pearl Harbor in order to invade the Middle East, is demonstrable proof that the American left-wing is irrelevant.

The American left interprets 9/11 and subsequent false flag events as oppressed peoples striking back at their oppressors. The emotional satisfaction of this takes the impotent American left-wing out not only of action but of relevance in commentary. The American left-wing has become an asset of the enemy–the neoconservatives who control policy in Washington.

So, where do we stand? The answer is that we are closer to nuclear annihilation than ever before. I know of what I speak. I held the highest security clearances. I was a member of a secret committee that enabled President Reagan to end the Cold War.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin is doing everything he can possibly do to avoid the nuclear war that the crazed American neoconservatives are bringing to humanity. For his efforts in behalf of planet Earth he is demonized 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year after year. For simply stating facts, I am described by the presstitutes as “an apologist for Putin.”

The endless lies about Russia have convinced the Russian media that Washington is mobilizing its NATO vassals for an attack on Russia. Read the transcripts to this Russian media broadcast.

If you aren’t scared after absorbing this Russian news broadcast, you are stupid beyond belief. The message is clear: the West has declared war on Russia but is trying to keep Russia off guard by denying it.

The video of the Russian news broadcast also shows the dismissive way the Russian media was treated at the recent NATO conference in Poland. The non-entity representatives of the non-entity countries of Latvia, which has been ruthlessly looted by the West, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland, and the Ukraine representative either refuse to speak to the Russian media or use the interview to repeat Washington’s false accusations against Russia. These imbeciles insulting Russia are representatives of countries that Russia could destroy in a few minutes. If these idiots think Washington could save them, they are as stupid as the Polish colonels who thought that the British guarantee in March 1939 meant anything and could save Poland from the rash action of sticking Poland’s fingers in Hitler’s eye. This Polish stupidity provoked by the stupid British set off World War II with the British and French declaration of war against Germany, thus consigning Poland to Soviet rule for a half century. Some guarantee! The imbecile Chamberlain who wanted peace started WWII with Britain’s worthless “guarantee.”

Does it make you feel safe that the arrogant warmongering imbeciles in Washington have convinced a nuclear power the equal of the United States that America is going to attack?

Moreover, Russia is a nuclear power allied with another nuclear power, China, which has had enough of Washington’s imbecilic provocations. Are you willing for “your” government to lead your future into nuclear war with two nuclear powers?

Here we Americans are going into a presidential election and the overpowering fact of our time–that Washington is threatening humanity with nuclear war–is not a subject for discussion! What is the matter with us Americans? Are we stupid beyond all belief? We sit stupidly, thinking that issues of no importance are the most important issues of our time while “our” insane government provokes nuclear war. Have any people in history failed their obligation to this extent? If so, who?

My case rests. There is no countervailing evidence against the fact that unadulterated evil rules the West and is driving the world to extinction. Western democracy is a total failure. Democracy could not prevent the crazed warmonger Hillary from presidential nomination despite the opposition of the American people.

How long can Russia, and China, wait before they conclude that they have to pre-empt the coming attack from Washington? Does anyone, even stupid Americans, think that once Russia and China are convinced that they are targets for attack that they will just sit there and await the attack?

Do peoples as guilty of dereliction of duty as Western peoples are have any right to survive?

In March, WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive for over 30,000 emails
& email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server
while she was secretary of state. The 50,000 pages of documents span from June
2010 to August 2014; 7,500 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton. The
State Department released the emails as a result of a Freedom of Information
Act request.

TRANSCRIPT

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Julian, I want to mention something else. In
March, you launched a searchable archive for over 30,000 emails and email
attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she
was secretary of state. The 50,547 pages of documents span the time from June
2010 to August 2014; 7,500 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton
herself. The emails were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the
U.S. State Department as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request.
Why did you do this, and what’s the importance, from your perspective, of being
able to create a searchable base?

JULIAN ASSANGE: Well, WikiLeaks has become the rebel library of
Alexandria. It is the single most significant collection of information that
doesn’t exist elsewhere, in a searchable, accessible, citable form, about how
modern institutions actually behave. And it’s gone on to set people free from
prison, where documents have been used in their court cases; hold the CIA accountable
for renditions programs; feed into election cycles, which have resulted in the
termination of, in some case—or contributed to the termination of governments,
in some cases, taken the heads of intelligence agencies, ministers of defense
and so on. So, you know, our civilization can only be as good as our knowledge
of what our civilization is. We can’t possibly hope to reform that which we do
not understand.

So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the cables
that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich picture of how
Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly, how the U.S. Department
of State operates. So, for example, the disastrous, absolutely disastrous
intervention in Libya, the destruction of the Gaddafi government, which led to the
occupation of ISIS of large segments of that country, weapons flows
going over to Syria, being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within
Syria, including ISIS, that’s there in those emails. There’s more than
1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about
Libya alone.

WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief, Julian Assange
joins Democracy Now! on the Monday following the Friday
release of 20,000 DNC emails, which reveal how the Democratic Party worked to
undermine and defeat Bernie Sanders' campaign.

Assange slams Hillary Clinton as
"corrupt":

"It's important that there be examples of
accountability. The resignation [of DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz] was an
example of that..." Hillary has tried to immediately produce a counter
example by putting out a statement, within hours, saying that Debbie Wasserman
Schultz is a great friend, and that she'll incorporate her into the Clinton
campaign, while she also helps Schultz with her re-election campaign to
Congress.

"So that's a very interesting signal by
Hillary Clinton, that if you act in a corrupt way that benefits Hillary
Clinton, you will be taken care of. Why does she need to put that out?...It's a
very destructive signal for a future presidency..."

The sides conducted a detailed exchange of opinions on the continued
efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, in which intra-Syrian talks in Geneva
should play a central role.

Gatilov emphasised the need to launch a dialogue among Syrians as soon
as possible without any preconditions. In turn, Staffan de Mistura suggested
late August as a tentative time for convening the next round of talks. The
Russian spokesman said the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has already
agreed to take part in the talks and emphasised the importance of an inclusive
delegation from the Syrian opposition, which should include Kurdish
representatives as well as all other opponents of official Damascus that take a
constructive approach and seek a comprehensive political settlement of the
Syrian crisis.

The Russian spokesman called it unacceptable to make the start of the
talks dependent on artificial preconditions and to impose on Syrians settlement
solutions from the outside. He emphasised that only Syrian parties should be
involved in agreeing the parameters of Syrian statehood at inclusive talks.

'Clinton Cash', is a stomach-turning, very
well-researched feature documentary based on Peter Schweizer's book of the same
title, that the New York Times hailed as “The most anticipated
and feared book of a presidential cycle.”

Clinton Cash investigates how Bill and Hillary
Clinton went from being “dead broke” after leaving the White House to amassing
a net worth of over $150M, with over $2B in donations to their foundation.

This wealth was accumulated during Mrs.
Clinton’s tenure as US Secretary of State through lucrative speaking fees and
contracts (favors) paid for by foreign companies and Clinton Foundation donors.

The chicanery and fraud of the Clinton
Foundation is absolutely revolting, especially in the case of the so-called
Haitian earthquake relief effort. It's sickening and appalling how the super
rich were enabled to become richer in the wake of a major natural disaster in
the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

These lowdown grifters cannot be allowed to
occupy the White House again!

“A new investigation into the shadowy spy group, known as Shik, could
also prove embarrassing for western intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and
France’s DGSE, whose support for prime minister Hashim Thaçi, the PDK and Shik
dates back to the 1998-9 Kosovo war. At the time, the Americans and French
backed Thaçi as the most effective Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander
fighting the Serbian military, which was conducting a brutal counter-insurgency
and “ethnic-cleansing campaign”…The launch of the new enquiry, which will be
conducted by Kosovan and Eulex investigators, will raise questions of why it
was not begun five years earlier.

“In his 2009 video Bllaca said that he worked for the execution arm of
Shik, charged with killing “collaborators”, LDK officials and potential
witnesses against KLA commanders for war crimes.

He said that between 1999 and 2003 he took part in an estimated 17
crimes, including assassinations, attempted assassinations, threats and
blackmail, claiming that he worked directly for Syla.

Thaci, who is obviously preparing his defense against the charges didn’t
make it this time. But after all, he was a special guest when Secretary of
State John Kerry was in the running.

Do organ trafficking operations run like the urban legend would have you
think? You know, a guy walks into a bar and a beautiful girl seduces him and
gives him a “mickey.”. He wakes up in a bathtub with stitches, feeling a
“little sore” and a few pounds lighter?

This real world confession from one of Kadri Veseli’s men lays the
horror out plainly. And shows why both he and Thaci are facing charges for it.

“The interview was broadcast on Monday a day after Serbia’s war crimes
prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told AFP his office had a witness who “testified
about a medical procedure, done in northern Albania, that consisted of
harvesting organs from Serbs kidnapped during the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo”.

“They gave me a scalpel. I put my left hand on his chest and began
cutting. When I got near the bottom (of the ribs), the blood started pouring,”
the witness, whose face was not shown and whose voice was distorted, told RTS.

assange

At midday on Friday 5 February, 2016 Julian Assange, John Jones QC, Melinda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzon will be speaking at a press conference at the Frontline Club on the decision made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the Assange case.